policy of protests or a foreign policy where you're really focused on trying to make a difference." in some ways it might have been easier for the president to have gone out today and condemned, as he did, what the egyptian military did, and also say that he was going to take away the aid because i think there will be congressional pressure towards that end, and a number of american allies, particularly in europe are, going to want to take that same measure. but on the other hand, the united states remains the most influential outsider-- outside country, outside force in the middle east. we have very important security interests, not only in egypt, but we certainly do in that peace agreement with israel, and that's the bedrock concern of the rells. and i think there's an appreciation, judy, that these arab revolutions are going to go on and on and on. this is not going to be a short drama. they may be at the end of act one of a five-act play that guilty on for a generation. so the calculation by the administration, which i think is right, is that you have to stay in the fight, you h